Babies unfortunately treated like trash

You can call your Aug. 9 edition "The Issue of Ironies." I anticipated the front-page headline "Out with the Trash" would refer to the current idiocy going on with the Hinds County Board of Supervisors. Instead, that update was mercifully relegated to section B.

The juxtaposition of two articles on page 2B was far more important, however, as the underlying issue was the sanctity of human life.

One reported on an Alabama judge's ruling that a Birmingham abortion clinic must be permanently closed. This occurred while we in Mississippi anticipate yet another ruling by U.S. District Judge Daniel Jordan on the fate of our last remaining Mississippi abortion clinic, which is owned by the same operator recently shut down in Alabama.

The adjacent article reported on the dropping of a manslaughter indictment against a woman whose stillborn baby tested positive for methamphetamines. The court did so without debating the merits of the case, which is whether women can be held criminally liable for the death of their unborn children. Your article stated that the medical examiner had previously stated that "only babies born alive can be killed."

Now that is idiocy! Mothers, supposed-doctors and courts treat babies as trash to be outed.

Rita B. Anderson

Clinton

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Babies unfortunately treated like trash

You can call your Aug. 9 edition 'The Issue of Ironies.' I anticipated the front-page headline 'Out with the Trash' would refer to the current idiocy going on with the Hinds County Board of